Ralph Nader famously anointed the original Chevy Corvair as unsafe at any speed for its swing axles and an engine format and placement that mimicked the Porsche. I’m not going to give away what that has to do with today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe 911, but when you find out, it just might swing your vote.

Corvairs, despite what that skinny, Alan-Alda-impersonator Ralph Nader says, are fantastic. Even more fantastic are the Corvair Greenbriar pickup trucks. But to get to peak fantastic, you need to really step things up. Like making it amphibious. The good news is such a vehicle exists, and it’s even up for auction.

There's currently a bit of controversy over the Nissan-Panoz DeltaWing design, but if you ask me, the best thing for all lovers of triangular-shaped cars to do is let the big boys fight it out while the rest of us enjoy this incredible Corvair trike.

For an American car, the Corvair was delightfully strange. Any Corvair variant will inherently be strange, too, but I think it's hard to beat a Corvair-based vehicle named after a bird with lots of overdone chrome ornamentation, focused on safety, and built by a company best known for tiny, child-sized cars you start…

Easter is right around the corner, so what better way to spend this joyous holiday of rebirth and renewal, than with two lost and confused children, a Chevy Corvair, and a man in a bunny suit so shoddily made it screams nothing but "SERIAL KILLER RUN KIDS RUN?"

The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is one of the scariest races still run today, owing to its lack of guard rails and sheer vertical drops. Even Greg Tracy, a driver assaulting the mountain this weekend, will admit it. If you really want to taunt the icy grip of Death, however, you should do it in a Corvair.

Welcome to Found Around The District, where we highlight fascinating cars we find around a city where people are too busy fighting through traffic and hunting for parking to drive anything interesting: Washington, D.C.

“Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.” That ages-old slur against the news media was used quite a bit this week after the New York Times’ failed drive of the Tesla Model S, and Tesla’s subsequent response to it. People have a right to be skeptical of the Times’ drive: after all, media coverage of…

Here's a a pair of exclusive photos from the set of next Tuesday's apple pie-flavored Top Gear on History, which reveal the boys will attempt to drive three infamous "dangerous cars" to the death: a Corvair, a Pinto, and a Samurai. Our money's on the Corvair.

I normally drive a manual transmission, and generally prefer to, but I'm not blind to the charms of an automatic. Shifting your own gears — what are we, animals? Sure, I get why people want it. And I imagine everyone who's spent any amount of time in an automatic must have wondered, at least once, why PRNDL?

When the Ford GT40 cruised to victory at Le Mans in 1967 it was the first all-American car with all-American drivers to win. But the car was more American than people realized — thanks to a few lightweight Chevy parts.

There's no end to the superlatives the automotively obsessed will pursue, which is why we'll proudly feature the "fastest Corvair-powered sand dragster." Watch it traverse this dirty 300-foot track in just 2.97 seconds. Can you top it? (H/T Jaredglentz!)

It was 45 years ago last week that Ralph Nader's infamous book Unsafe at Any Speed hit bookstores. In pointing out the need for industry improvements in automotive safety Nader questionably singled out the Chevrolet Corvair. Photo Credit: Storeyland

The star of the Cadillac event at the GM Design Center tonight is the as-of-yet unrevealed Cadillac Urban Concept, but for us the big star's been Jay Leno, who was nice enough to talk with me about Corvairs over burgers.